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	<title>For Want of a Nail &#187; Elections</title>
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		<title>We Can Run This Better Than You</title>
		<link>http://forwantofanail.com/2012/04/we-can-run-this-better-than-you/</link>
		<comments>http://forwantofanail.com/2012/04/we-can-run-this-better-than-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 15:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fwoan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A science blog I like to read published a post of interest to me this week showing the bonuses to democracy if our legislators were chosen at random. This is a subject I am very interested in because it is one of the only systems that we could employ in order to ensure that our legislators do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did You Hear How Many Houses He Has?</title>
		<link>http://forwantofanail.com/2012/04/did-you-hear-how-many-houses-he-has/</link>
		<comments>http://forwantofanail.com/2012/04/did-you-hear-how-many-houses-he-has/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fwoan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The result, long seen by anyone even casually paying attention, of the Republican primaries has finally revealed. Mitt Romney will, much like John McCain was, be painted as the archetype of out-of-touch wealth. Which he is, and he definitely should be! He absolutely is a man who has made millions of dollars by exploiting both [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Could Be Our Lucky Winner!</title>
		<link>http://forwantofanail.com/2012/02/you-could-be-our-lucky-winner/</link>
		<comments>http://forwantofanail.com/2012/02/you-could-be-our-lucky-winner/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fwoan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://forwantofanail.com/?p=1697</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Our government does not represent us. The politicians may speak endlessly of mandates from the people, or that their elections are messages by the electorate demanding the ever more repressive policies they introduce &#8211; but it&#8217;s demonstrably false. Voter turnout is always low, and polling nearly always shows that popular opinion is against federal opinion. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy Requires Ignorance</title>
		<link>http://forwantofanail.com/2012/01/democracy-requires-ignorance/</link>
		<comments>http://forwantofanail.com/2012/01/democracy-requires-ignorance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fwoan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If this election&#8217;s primary season for the Republican nomination hasn&#8217;t presented enough evidence to show us the truth of this, then take a look at this article on io9. Turns out, democracies only work when large swathes of uninformed individuals side with a perceived majority. Well no kidding. What else would cause an endless cycle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yeah, Well I&#8217;m More Disillusioned Than You, Pal!</title>
		<link>http://forwantofanail.com/2011/12/yeah-well-im-more-disillusioned-than-you-pal/</link>
		<comments>http://forwantofanail.com/2011/12/yeah-well-im-more-disillusioned-than-you-pal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 17:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fwoan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://forwantofanail.com/?p=1623</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Fat and happy from a wonderful family gathering over the holiday weekend, I returned to check my Facebook account this morning and was greeted with a liberal friend&#8217;s usual in-your-face Obama infatuation. This time, in the form of a supposed George Clooney quote basically putting down anyone who isn&#8217;t satisfied with Obama by making the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Am an Enemy of the &#8220;Good&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://forwantofanail.com/2011/08/i-am-an-enemy-of-the-good/</link>
		<comments>http://forwantofanail.com/2011/08/i-am-an-enemy-of-the-good/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:32:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fwoan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://forwantofanail.com/?p=1490</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Throughout the Obama presidency, self-styled &#8220;progressive&#8221; liberals have invested so much of their identity and worth into electing and defending a man who has, in almost every sense, used them to advance an agenda no different from their worst enemy, George W. Bush. For every fundamental policy of the liberals&#8217; once mouthed by Obama and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>We Certainly Showed Them</title>
		<link>http://forwantofanail.com/2011/08/we-certainly-showed-them/</link>
		<comments>http://forwantofanail.com/2011/08/we-certainly-showed-them/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 20:36:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fwoan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Worker's Rights]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Scott Walker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unions]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://forwantofanail.com/?p=1484</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When Republican Governor Scott Walker instituted destructive new rules for public unions, public outcry was enormous. I watched the news and saw pictures of thousands of protestors decrying unfair treatment of Wisconsin&#8217;s workers. It was obvious the energy was there, so what did the unions do to funnel that energy? Into a fucking voting booth [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>If Voting Were Actually Important&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://forwantofanail.com/2011/07/if-voting-were-actually-important/</link>
		<comments>http://forwantofanail.com/2011/07/if-voting-were-actually-important/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 20:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fwoan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://forwantofanail.com/?p=1464</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If voting were actually important to our legislators, why would they make it so hard to do? Thinking logically, such an important task should be made possible to complete with a minimum of effort so that all could make their voices heard and the transition of government could take place with all its constituents in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Voting for People Makes No Sense</title>
		<link>http://forwantofanail.com/2011/06/voting-for-people-makes-no-sense/</link>
		<comments>http://forwantofanail.com/2011/06/voting-for-people-makes-no-sense/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fwoan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lesser-evilism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Coming off the discussion in the comments section of my last post, I wanted to talk more (or maybe just repeat myself some more) about the voting practices found in our society today. The U.S. government and the U.S. corporate media are ramping up the propaganda campaign for the next presidential election charade next year, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Good Thing We Beat the Republicans, Right? Part II</title>
		<link>http://forwantofanail.com/2011/06/good-thing-we-beat-the-republicans-right-part-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://forwantofanail.com/2011/06/good-thing-we-beat-the-republicans-right-part-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 17:49:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fwoan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As the distraction known as the 2012 Presidential election looms, liberal friends of mine are becoming increasingly defensive in their adoration of Obama and the elected Democrats in general. This blind allegiance is increasingly confusing to me because these people are otherwise intelligent and have opinions I respect. Why are we so stuck in this [...]]]></description>
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